Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

REV. JOIN WHITE, a colored preacher Of
Green wood, Ark, who will be lo2 years old IN
July, has taken out license to marry Mrs.
Edle Smith, who ia a giduy girl or % sum =
mers. The Rev. John has been preaching
elghty-one years, and mas been married twice.
THE beaver, which before the war was
pretty well driven out of the Southern States,
appears to be returning. showing that the
negroes are not such keen and industrious
hunters as the whites. and The latter have
not the leisure TO give to fed sports as
formerly. The fur OF the Southern beaver Is
Inferior.
AMONG the low caste people of Calcutta the
Empress jubilee does not cause iubiation
but on the contrary quite the reverse. Some
tll-disposed person has circulated the rumor
that the SlrKar requires large number OF
human heads for the jubilee celebration, ana
there lie dlsmay IN consequence among the
lowly, whose heads would naturally be Sc
eoted as the cheapest.
A NUMBER OF wealthy gentlemen in Cincin-
natl have established club room in that city
for young men who are without place to
spend their evenings. 1t is nicely fitted up,
and has billiard tables. library, etc. The
club is absolutely free, and the only require
ment for members is that they shall BEHAVE
themselves like gentlemen. The cut Of the
applicants clothes Ia not considered.
MISS SALLIE CUNNINGHAM, a Kentucky
belle rich in her own right. had her wedding
day postponed twice during last week after
the people had gathered at the church TO See
the knot tied. On the hrst occasion Mr.. James
u. Gtvcns was to have been the happy or un-
happy man, and on the last Mr.. John Jabine,
the lormer a young barrister and the latter a
young business man. Miss cunningham now
says she Goes not believe she wants 10 marry
any one.
THERE appeared last week in the obituary
columns Of the Philadelphia Public Ledger
notices of the deaths of twelve
persons, three men and nine women, who had
lived to or bevond the advanced are of so
years, to- wit: Catharine Sheble 81. George
Engert, Hester Lesher SO, Mary Bennett 81 4,
Mary Morris johnson, Catherine smith 85,
Elizabeth Neal SO, Ann Crawford 81, William
Carvllle, Solomon Forebaugh 80. Harriet
BrlhkWorth 80, Margaret Trimbe a.
PETER FORBES, of East Missouri, Can, at Q
o'clock one recent morning crawled into a
hole in straw stack to look after a family Of
little pigs that had been there but snort
time. While he was investigating the
mother came home, and she was angry when
she SaW the invader. She Wouldn't let Mr..
Forbes back out, and he didn't think 1t wise
TO turn around. SO there was nothing to do
but dig, and dig he did. ana about O'Clock
in the afternoon he emerged from the tunnel
that he had eXcavated a very hungry and
dsSu6ted man,
A YOUNG married man named Berthlaume
left the village of Terrebonne, Can, fifteen
years ago to seek his fortune in California,
intending to send for his wife when his means
would PERMIT. At the end sot one year the
woman received letter informing her that
her husband was dead. In year or two she
married prominent merchant, and they
have since lived very happily together. The
other day Berlhlaume put in an appearance
and claimed his wife. The village cure was
appealed to for a decision, and he decided
that the woman must live with her nrst
husband.
DEPUTY SHERIFF TRUMBo, Of Baltimore,
mourns the death of his goat, which he priz ed
for his almost human intelligence. He (the
goaD would steal peanuts from the stands of
the city even more successfully than the
small BOY, and when his appetite for peanuts
was satisfied he sIrOled through the ward,
picking up any unconsldered trlfe that fell
IN his way On one occasion he brought
home door mat; on another a good bed
spread; on still another he walked into a
house of mourning, pulled the covering Off
the corpse and made OFF with it. 1t is thought
the goat was poisoned.
"WE have In this town." says a Southern
Missouri exchange, 1.-THE most abandoned and
consclenceless donkey that is permitted to
atllict mankind. Every hour of the twenty
four, week in and week out. his agonizlng
and ar-piercing aw he haw- he haw peals
Oub III we ugulbH6u air. Ge0HIe set tnelr
watches by his bray. Two promising revivals
OF religion have been utterly broken up this
winter by It's unearthly and ill-timed COM
ments. The presence of this animal has be-
come lntolerable. Is there any city or town
In the country that has sOmethlng-no matter
What-to trade for Missouri jackass?"
OLD Doc, one OF MissoUrl's war horses, has
just died, He was foaled near Bloomington,
ILL.,. on May 10. 1853. In 1851 he was pur-
chased by Capt. Withers, of Company c,
Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and ridden by him
throughout the war. In Sherm ans march
this horse headed column marching through
G'eOrsi to the sea. In a charge at Atlanta
the horse received four Minnie balls. The
anlmafs gait was iat-footed walk and
while oh the march the cry frequently went
along the line, Hold Old Doc back" In
1866 Capt. WIthers bought a farm near Knox
vile, Mo, where ''Old Docs" unceasing toll
went on in the field or under the saddle on
the road until two years ago, when he was set
free and had every care bestowed upon him
his great age and services demanded.
THE twenty second annual report of the
Peabody fund in London contains series of
interesting facts and figures most encourag-
ing to philanthropists, present and future 1t
VIII be remembered that the sum TOT of
Mr. Peabody's gifts to the English poor was
81, zoo, winch sum was designed for the
building Of homes for the working people
Up to the close of the year 30.2!S persuns
were enjoying shelter beneath the ruols his
generosity ere cted, while the renls interest,
etc, had swelcd the capital to over s.. 500. 600
IN value. The average rent OF these apart
ments is about $l20 q week, in all cases IN =
GLIDING the free use of water, bath rooms
and laundrles, During 1886 the rents alone
announced to $4,000, while the entire eN-
pendltures of the trustees fer repairs, etc.
reached only the remarkably low figure OF
$40, 0OO.
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